Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the level of support provided by energy suppliers to disabled customers through programmes such as benefit entitlement checks and debt write-off.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason, the Government did not take forward proposals for £5 million of Industry Initiatives to support disabled people who are struggling with energy costs but may not b

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Company Obligation: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the changes in support for disabled people through the Energy Company Obligation scheme, whether an assessment has been made of the impact on the finances of dis

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Warm Home Discount Scheme: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he will make an assessment of the potential merits of revising the planned reforms to the Warm Home Discount eligibility criteria so all those in receipt of Personal Indep

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Warm Home Discount Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, who will qualify for the Warm Home Discount under the new Core Group 2.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Fuel Poverty: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether higher energy costs and usage experienced by disabled people are accounted for in his Department's 2030 fuel poverty target.

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment he has made of the impact of disability and health status on energy costs; and if he will take steps to ensure that the eligibility criteria for the

19 Apr 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the finding in the report by the Disabled Children’s Partnership entitled Left Behind: 6 Months On, which found nearly 70 per cent of parent carers of disabled children have seen their physica

14 Apr 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether staff in his Department working on proposals to reform the Human Rights Act 1998 have received training on the Social Model of Disability.

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Voting Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that Mental Health NHS Trusts have updated policies and strategies on voting rights for people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities; and wh

14 Apr 2022 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress the Government has made in negotiations with the European Commission on the UK exclusion from conditions relating to fiscal representatives for the EU Import One Stop Shop scheme.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of assessments for disability living allowance carried out in each of the last five years.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Attendance Allowance: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of assessments for attendance allowance in each of the last five years.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he made of the potential merits of setting a target of 5 micrograms per cubic metre (µg m-3) to be met across England by 2030 in line with 2021 WHO Global Air Quality G

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of findings of research presented in the 2019 Air Quality: Assessing progress towards WHO guideline levels

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Fuels: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April to Question 145949 on Fuels: Prices, whether his Department has carried out a full equality impact assessment of the rising fuel costs on disable

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that the forthcoming reform of the 1983 Mental Health Act will include school and community-based early-intervention provision for children and young people, to includ

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Attendance Allowance: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of assessments for attendance allowance in each of the last five years.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of assessments for disability living allowance in each of the last five years.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children under the age of three are in receipt of DLA Care under the special rules.

24 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Council Tax: Energy Bills Rebate

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how households who do not pay their council tax by direct debit can claim the £150 council tax rebate.

24 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2022 to Question 128369 on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Coronavirus, whether he plans to publish that list of eligible groups before 1 April 2022.

23 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Warm Home Discount scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of changes to the Warm Home Discount scheme on people claiming (a) disability living allowance, (b) personal independence pay

23 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Fuels: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of rising fuel costs on disabled people.

21 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will supply a decision on behalf of the Government on each of the 25 recommendations made by the select committee on Health and Social Care in its Eighth Report, Children and Young People's M

15 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Travel: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the 9.30am start time for free public transport on disabled people's abilities to commute to their place of work or education; and whether he has made an

15 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 120845, tabled by the hon Member for Lewisham, Deptford.

15 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sheehan's Syndrome

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2022 to Question 120844 on Sheehan's Syndrome, whether that data is held by a public body.

15 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to communicate delays to Access to Work (a) new applications and (b) renewals to scheme users to allow them to find support in the interim.

15 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current waiting time is for Access to Work (a) new applications and (b) renewals.

Source: official written-questions record.